A: Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that affects ... first week of February. The photo you sent me shows a different problem. The bark is coming off of the tree and it looks like there ...

Q: After losing a prized peach tree to curl disease, I recently ordered a ‘Frost’ peach because I heard it is highly resistant to the disease. Are there other peach trees that are also resistant?

One of the early signs of this disease is fewer leaves on your peach tree, and the ones that develop will be small and yellow. Avoid letting your peach tree roots stand in saturated soils for ...

“That’s the normal appearance of a peach tree in the summertime,” Mitchem said of pictures both he and ... tree planting depth and weed and disease management. Even with that list, Brannen ...

The infected leaves usually fall off and are replaced by a new crop that shows fewer or no symptoms of the disease. Peach and nectarine trees infected with untreated peach leaf curl disease ...

Once peach leaf curl symptoms appear (when trees leaf out in the spring) it’s too late for anything to be done to stop the disease. Spraying after symptoms show up is ineffective and removing ...

But the long ripening period also makes the trees more vulnerable to pests, disease and drought. My recommendation is to plant Florida King for a low-chill, early-producing peach and June Gold for ...

The 64th annual Louisiana Peach ... of trees without the treatment and now loses his peaches at a rapid rate. “We had 10,000 planted on this orchard,” he said. “The disease has hit us ...